Phil Edholm

President and Founder

PKE Consulting

http://www.pkeconsulting.com

[email protected]

 

Phil Edholm is the President and Founder of PKE Consulting. PKE consults to end users and vendors in the communications and networking markets. PKE works with our clients to deliver the value of the integration of information and interaction. Whether with Unified Communications or integration of communications and business processes, PKE has the experience and knowledge to transform your organization.

Phil Edholm has over 30 years experience in creating innovation and transformation in networking and communications. Prior to founding PKE , he was Vice President of Technology Strategy and Innovation for Avaya. In this role, he was responsible for defining vision and strategic technology and the integration of the Nortel product portfolio into Avaya. He was responsible for portfolio architecture, standards activities, and User Experience. Prior to Avaya, he was CTO/CSO for the Nortel Enterprise business for 9 years. At Nortel, he led the development of VoIP solutions and multimedia communications as well as IP transport technology. His background includes extensive LAN and data communications experience, including 13 years with Silicon Valley start-ups.

Phil is recognized as an industry leader and visionary. In 2007, he was recognized by Frost and Sullivan with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Growth, Innovation and Leadership in Telecommunications. Phil is a widely sought speaker and has been in the VoiceCon/Enterprise Connect Great Debate three times. He has been recognized by the IEEE as the originator of “Edholm’s Law of Bandwidth” as published in July 2004 IEEE Spectrum magazine and as one of the “Top 100 Voices of IP Communications" by Internet Telephony magazine. Phil was a member of the IEEE 802.3 standards committee, developed the first multi-protocol network interfaces, and was a founder of the Frame Relay Forum. Phil has 13 patents and holds a BSME/EE from Kettering University.

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Today the FCC eliminated the Obama-era restrictions on the ability of an ISP to arbitrarily limit traffic. While there are a range of arguments on both sides, as users...
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In this Industry Buzz podcast the BCStrategies Experts look back at the hot topics, issues and trends of 2017 in the unified communications and collaboration space. Blair Pleasant moderates the...

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The announcement of Cisco's acquisition of BroadSoft is the topic of this week's Industry Buzz podcast. Blair Pleasant moderates the conversation which includes BCStrategies Experts Jon Arnold, ...
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In this Industry Buzz podcast, Blair Pleasant moderates a conversation with the Experts about the recent BC Summit. Experts on the call include Dave Stein, Phil Edholm, Jon Arnold, Nicolas De...

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The announcement today that BroadSoft has accepted an offer to be acquired by Cisco opens a new discussion about the changes we can expect across the industry. It will...
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This week, Cisco Spark™ announced several breakthroughs around security, compliance and analytics. This week's Industry Buzz podcast drills down into the significance of these announcements for...
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In this Industry Buzz podcast the UCStrategies Experts discuss the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications 2017. Led by ...

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I had an opportunity last week to talk with the team at Aryaka networks, a cloud-based global Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) company that has seen...
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In this Industry Buzz podcast,  the UCStrategies Experts discuss Avaya's recent announcement as it moves forward to emerge from Chapter 11....

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In this Industry Buzz podcast, UCStrategies' Dave Michels leads the discussion...

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In this Industry Buzz podcast, UCStrategies' Dave Michels leads the discussion among the UCStrategies Experts about the news that Mitel has acquired ShoreTel. Participants this week include...

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